Sean Reichle

I generally think that you can tell how intelligent a person is simply by knowing his/her religion and how dependent on it they are.   People are willing to believe in things that allow them to connect the dots in their mind as to form complete pictures.  You see, humans cannot think about something whilst not understanding it.   So the greater your need for religion, the less real understanding you have about how things work.

I say understanding because you don’t need faith when you have understanding.  Conversely you can say understanding exactly how something works requires no faith since understanding has to be based on scientifically proven facts which have confidence of accuracy.

If we don’t have facts to prove or deny something, we first devise a theory then we simply build some machine or scientific instrument that can tell us what we don’t know until we have a full understanding based in scientific fact.   Now it’s true we don’t know everything and I don’t think anyone in science claims to know everything.  We do however know enough now that we know there is no Sun God.   There are no Angles that watch over humans in their trials of life any more then rats have angles protecting them from rat traps.

I dare say god has been written into our guide book by our ancestors who had lived for thousands of years on this planet before us and wanted to try and give us a moral compass.   Even our ancestors knew that man does not listen to just any man when it comes to rules.   The only way of passing this knowledge and applying a morality would work is if we called them rules from a supreme being.

When that failed, humans tried to use man as a medium for passing the message down from god.   Even then we as humans refused to listen and killed the man who tried to send the message.   Religion has been fighting barbarism for humans.    Dare I say it was genius.   I say that because it seems the approach worked beautify. Just as in the story of Santa Clause or the Tooth Ferry there is a time when you must accept reality and shed yourself of crutches to carry you across bridges of understanding and build foundations in science for a true understanding of how things work.

We are on the brink of world change yet again.  We have broken matter down into the smallest particles in trying to understand how things really work and why everything does what it does.  Soon enough we will have all those answers just as we have answered the questions laid before us on countless other matters in history.   We will find the answers.   The real answers will again be in shake the foundations based on religion and many, many people refusing to be considered totally lost will fight for their belief we will fight yet again.

Perhaps we can prey that those grounded in religion prey less and study to learn and think to understand everything through explanation.   I have no personal objection to religion.  It has had a valid purpose in history and is still necessary for many people to exist and live out their daily lives.   It’s a simple yet crude alternative to having a complete picture of the universe at atomic levels and not all people can be happy with having such questions unanswered.   I just want to encourage those grounded in religion to keep an open mind.   After all, cellphones, flat screen, airplanes and spaceships are not magical things.

-Sean Reichle